Improvement in paper-files



a tite tant @anni BARUH-,N EY AND HNRY HOFHElMER, OF ALEXANDRIA,VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent No. 83,531, dated October 27, 1.868.

IDPRQYEIVIEINT 'IN PAPER-FILES.

The Schedule referred tfin these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, sucent to enable others skilled in thevart to which our inventionappertains to fully understand and use the' same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this specication,and in which- -Iligure 1 is a front viewof the device, illustrating ourinvention, and

Figure 2 isa side view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This paper-tile consists of a suitable stock or frame, to which thepapers or sheets are ilnpaled by a detain'- ing-rod armed with prongs;and around a partfof said frame is a marginal casing or. series ofcard-holders, designed to afford an effective means of displaying anumberof business-cards. i

I'n the drawings, A may represent a' stock or frame, `of wood, metal, orother material.

'It will be seen that the frame A is so constructed as to support thepapers containedin the le 'at or near their outer edges. The advantageof this will be readily appreciated by' those accustomed to use the ordinary files for newspapers.

O is a rod, bar, or piece of wood or metal, hinged or 4pivoted to thestoclrA at u, andy having a series of lday of August, 1868.

When the rod C is turned down, so as to be, throughout its entirelength, in contguity with the stock A, it is held at its free' end by asuitable. catch at D, the sheets being thus niade fast between the rodand the stock by the pins c.

E and E are' parts suitably connected together and joined to the frameor stock A, and constituting a series of cardholders, said parts beingrebated or grooved in such a way that cards may be slid into them fromthe direction of the retaining-rod O. The cards being th ns intrmluced,lmay be conined therein for any length of time, by the metallic strips F,or otherwise, said strips being screwed to the stock It will be noticedthat when the newspapers are lproperlyattached tothe frame or stock, theentire inarvginal'seriesot cards 'will lbe exposed and presented tov theView of the spectator, simultaneously with the titlepage of the sheetson le, and; by their weight, serving to counterbalance the weight of thepapers upon the part A of the frame.-

Hencethe invention oii'ers a simple and effective means of advertising,as well as a desirable paper-file.

Having thus 'described our invention, i lVhat we claim as new herein,anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

- The paper-tile A, provided with an outer supportingedge A',counterbalanced by the advertisingfames E, arranged and combinedsubstantially as shown.

To the above we have signed our names, this 20th BARUH NEY. HENRYHOFHEIMER. Witnesses:

A. WmDERsHEiM,

JACOB F. HENRY.

